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Cast:
Emran Hashmi, Esha Deol, Sameer Kochhar |
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Simone Singh, Chetan Hansraj |
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Year:
2008 |
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Music:
Pritam |
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Lyrics: Sayeed Quadri, Neelesh Misra |
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Co Producer:
Vishesh Bhatt |
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Executive Producer:
Kumkum Saigal |
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Banner:
Vishesh Films |
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Producer:
Mukesh Bhatt |
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Director:
Kunal Deshmukh |
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Jannat, with a decent measure of romance, thrill, comedy,
tragedy and of course cricket is definitely a masala flick.
But then every such movie is not loved. While Jannat has a
new storyline, it does fall short of what we would call good
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As mentioned, Jannat does have a story never told
before in Bollywood. Sports as a topic too was never
such a big money spinner. Thus, making the movie
topical. Jannat is a story of Arjun (Emraan Hashmi)
who wants to make it big, and fast.
Arjun as
a child has faced poverty very badly and does not
want to struggle anymore for things he want or
fancies. And he gets into gambling for that. His
desires change when he meets a girl Zoya (Sonal
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he falls in love
with. He wants to give her everything that she can ever
think of. This leads him to the bigger league of betting on
cricket matches and then on to fixing the matches.
Gradually, he shifts to South Africa and starts work there
and gets involved with the underworld don Abu Ibrahim (Jawed
Khan). Zoya also shifts with him believing that he has got
into a big company - a lie told by Arjun. |
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One fine day Zoya gets to know what's wrong when a
cop (Samir Kochar) arrives in South Africa and tells
her to help the police. Arjun is arrested. However,
Arjun refuses to mend his ways..
While the story has its novelty, it does have a lot
of inconsistencies. Breaking the glass of a shop in
a mall for a girl he just saw is something too over
the top – for any kind of character. And the police
letting him off is even funnier. |
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it's hard to believe that the police officer is almost
posted in South Africa permanently just to keep track of a
match fixer! Technically the film looks fine. The
photography is a hardhitting statement on the increasing
standards of the Indian cinematographers. Editing is good.
Background music is strictly ok. The playback music by
Pritam - original, copied or inspired – is one highlight of
the film. The dialogues in the film are pretty good. |
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Performance-wise, the actors in the movie
have never been known as great actors -
barring Jawed Khan who enjoys iconic status
in Pakistan. Keeping that in mind Emraan
Hashmi comes up with a good performance.
Debutante Sonal Chauhan has got hardly
anything to do except look pretty and do
loads of shopping which she justifies well.
Vishal Malhotra was way better in Kaal and
Ishq Vishk. Samir Kochar looks confident and
does a good job. |
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Jannat overall is an infesting venture for the fact that it
shows betting and match fixing in a convincing way. The film
has been made well. But we will have to wait and watch if
people would be interested to walk upto theatres to see
matches being fixed (what they already know) or they stay at
home and watch the IPL matches. The makers Kunal Deshmukh
and Mukesh Bhatt would be keeping their fingers crossed. |
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